From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: List pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Cc: Martin Zaun <Martin.Zaun@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] odd output in restore mode
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:06:17 -0400
Message-ID: <488DEE79.4010004@dunslane.net> (raw)
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<48873C7E.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov>
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Greg Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>
>> In our scripts we handle this by copying to a temp directory on the
>> same mount point as the archive directory and doing a mv to the
>> archive location when the copy is successfully completed. I think
>> that this even works on Windows. Could that just be documented as a
>> strong recommendation for the archive script?
>
> This is exactly what I always do. I think the way cp is shown in the
> examples promotes what's really a bad practice for lots of reasons,
> this particular problem being just one of them.
>
> I've been working on an improved archive_command shell script that I
> expect to submit for comments and potential inclusion in the
> documentation as a better base for other people to build on. This is
> one of the options for how it can operate. It would be painful but not
> impossible to convert a subset of that script to run under Windows as
> well, at least enough to cover this particular issue.
>
>
A Perl script using the (standard) File::Copy module along with the
builtin function rename() should be moderately portable. It would to be
nice not to have to maintain two scripts.
cheers
andrew
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